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CONTINUOUS GLASS MELTING FUSNAGB.

No.V 254,654.

Patented Mar. 7,1882.

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GONTINUOUS GLASS MELTING FURNAGE.

No. 254,654. Patented Mar. 7.1882.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSHUA W. HOUCHIN AND JOSHUA R. HOUOHl-N, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

CONTINUOUS GLASS-MELTING FURNACE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 254,654, dated March 7, 18872.

Application led July 20, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, JOSHUA W. HoUoHIN and J osuna B.HoUoH1N,of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Continuous Glass-Melting Furnaces, of which the following` is a specification.

Our present invention relates to glass-furnaces of that class in which the crushed or pulverized material to be converted into glass is melted, not in separate melting-pots, but in one main furnace or melting-trough, and thence flows through channels in a partition bridgewall into an auxiliary furnace or reservoir the floor of which is a little below the level of that of the main furnace. The walls of the auxiliary furnace are provided with the Workingopenings through which the melted glass is accessible by the workmen.

Our present object is to provide an improved construction of similar furnaces to adapt them for burning petroleum or other liquid hydrocarbon, and to improve combustion and intensify the heat by the use of a combination of a hydrocarbon-nozzle and an auxiliary superj acent and adjustable air-blast, as in the furnace heretofore invented by us for puddling and smelting ot' iron.

In the accompanying two sheets of drawings, Figure l represents a longitudinal vertical section of our improved continuous glass-furnace, the section being taken on the line :v :t of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of the same, taken on the line y y of Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a vertical cross-section ofthe same, taken on the line z z of Fig. 1, and seen in direction of the arrow. Fig. 4 is a vertical cross-section ot the same, taken on the line v o of-Fig. l, and seen in direction of the arrow.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts in the several figures.

A designates the furnace proper or meltingtrough, into which the crushed or pulverized material is introduced by means of the side openings, a. Two fire bridge-walls, B and O, constitute the front and rear walls, respectively, of the furnace A, the former bridge separating it from the kindling-box D, and the latter bridge separating it from the auxiliary or receiving furnace or trough E.

.Through the wall C, and iiush with the floor of the furnace A, are two or` more small channels, c, through which the melted material, in a properly liquid state, liows into the auxiliary furnace or working-trough E, Whose bottom or door is below the level ot' that of the main fur- .nace A, the melted glass being accessible by means of the hand-gates and working-openings e.

The kindling-boxis nearly triangularin crosssection, having a narrow bottom and upwarddaring sides, as shown in Fig. 3, which run into the side walls of the fire, entering flue F above it, the front end of which latter flue is occupied to its full width by the adjustable airblast nozzle G. Lengthwise the kindling-box D is wider at tbe bottom than at the top, the front end wall, d., receding, as shown in Fig. 1, from the lower edge of the blast-nozzle G to near the bottom of the box D, where the liquidhydrocarbon pipe H and its subjoining atomizing air-pipe I enter.

The nozzle G and atomizer H l are connected tothe same air-supply pipe K and otherwise constructed and arranged, as described in our previous invention patented July l2, 1881.

The length of the kindlingbox being greater at the bottom than at the top, and its width being greater at the top than at the bottom, and the superjacent nozzle G projecting considerably beyond the. atomzer H I, the ignited vapors will be caused to gradually spread as they ascend to the full width of the intercepting air-jet from the nozzle Gr and become effectually oxygenated by the said jet, and further spread through the inward-widening iiue F, and again when entering the furnace proper A. As shown in Fig. l, the nozzles enter through the front end, and, together with the kindling-box D and flue F, are located in the longitudinal vertical center plane of the furnace.

The unconsumed and heated gases resultant on combustion and partial expulsion of matter from the meltingmaterial pass off into and through the return-dues N, which are arranged through the upper part of the bridge-wall B, one ou each side of the entering-tine F, from which they are separated by walls b, reaching to the roof of the furnace, as clearly shown in Figs.2,3, and 4. The lateral directions of these flues N diverge rapidly from the center plane ICO Io lue L to the chimney. The chamber M is oblong or narrow in proportion to its length, and is arranged with its length transversely to that of the furnace, underneath the front end of the latter, as shown in the drawings, and the blastsupply-pipe I( (in which the air from a blowing machine enters at arrow 1,Fig. 2) forms a series of coils and return-bends, so as to acquire a large heating-surface before rising to the noz- Zles I and Gr. By the said arrangement of the heating-chamber INI the heating escape-gases are caused to travel a considerable distance, and thus to give off a large portion of their heat to the blast without increasing the distance of travel of the entering blast before it reaches the melting-trough A.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a glass-furnace for burning liquid hydrocarbon, the kindling-box provided with up- Ward-daring side walls, diverging from a narrow bottom to about the Width ot' the blastnozzle G and flue F, and having overhanging front Wall, el, causing upward diminishing length, in combination with the atomizer H I and superjacent blast-nozzle G, arranged substantially as shown and described.

2. Inacontinuous glass-furnacehavingatomizer II I and superjaccnt blast-nozzle G, the combination of the central entering-flue, F, melting-trough A, and lateral return-fines N,

with the blast heating chamber M,placed across and underneath the front end of the furnace, substantially as specified.

JOSHUA W. HOUGHIN. l JOSHUA R. HOUGHIN. Witnesses G. SEDGWICK, JOHN M. STELLE. 

